November 12, 2003
Financial Times: Plan for UN to manage internet 'will be shelved'.
An attempt by developing countries to put management of the internet under United Nations auspices is likely to be shelved at next month's world information summit in Geneva - but the issue is now firmly on the international agenda, summit sources say.
O'Reilly Network: PTO Director Orders Re-Exam for '906 Patent.
In what could be good news for the Web, the Director of the US Patent and Trademark Office has ordered a re-examination of the '906 patent, which was the subject of a patent infringement lawsuit this summer brought by Eolas against Microsoft.
Reason: Secrets, lies, and electronic voting.
But Floridians don't seem convinced that bytes beat butterflies: A quarter say that they are "not at all confident" in the new technology, and half believe that it's important for machines to preserve a paper trail of votes—something that's not currently done. If anything, though, voters may not be skeptical enough.
News.Com: Wild about wireless.
Q&A with Sean Maloney, Intel. The analogy is the Internet. The first time I saw a browser was 1992. It was like science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke's line, "Any good technology is indistinguishable from magic." You get the same feeling when you first use broadband wireless.
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